Leghorn
noun
English name of Livorno.
Leghorn
American
[leg-hawrn, leg-ern, -hawrn]
/ ˈlɛgˌhɔrn, ˈlɛg ərn, -ˌhɔrn /
noun
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English name of Livorno.
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(lowercase) a fine, smooth, plaited straw.
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(lowercase) a hat made of such straw, often having a broad, soft brim.
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one of a Mediterranean breed of chickens that are prolific layers of white-shelled eggs.
Leghorn
1
British
noun
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the English name for Livorno
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a breed of domestic fowl laying white eggs
leghorn
2
British
/ ˈlɛɡˌhɔːn /
noun
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a type of Italian wheat straw that is woven into hats
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any hat made from this straw when plaited
Etymology
Origin of leghorn
C19: named after Leghorn (Livorno)
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William Carlos Williams, “Anna Karenina,” Katherine Anne Porter, “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Cats,” Foghorn Leghorn: all get shoutouts here, a collective distress call that fails to move us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
Daniel Craig plays Benoit Blanc, the master detective with the Foghorn Leghorn accent who is once again summoned by rich eccentrics to solve a mystery.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
Oh, and there’s the detective Benoit Blanc, Daniel Craig’s Southern detective, along for the ride to solve for x with his distinctive Foghorn Leghorn bray and spoilery self-satisfaction.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
Who cares if he sounds like Foghorn Leghorn?
From The Verge ● Sep. 12, 2022
I sneaked out of the room, went out on the back porch, and stood watching Granny’s White Leghorn rooster chase the dominecker hens and the Rhode Island Reds.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Our white leghorn hens, generally a sociable crew, had ganged up on one miserable hen that had somehow acquired a scratch on her neck.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2013
Four young men from Youngstown, wearing orange shirts that identify them as manager, coaches and trainer of a leghorn named Otis, have a special technique.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Vancouver, B. C. a white leghorn hen was sold for $500.
From Time Magazine Archive
You could get a small white leghorn, feed it on grain for two weeks and then sell it for a dollar.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no spiral of lazy blue smoke twisting from the rock chimney, no white leghorn hen chasing a June bug, no horse or cow standing with head down and tail switching.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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